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...success of the modern production of beliefs. The modern health-care narrative is so firmly entrenched that it needs no introduction. You are sick; you visit the doctor; he diagnoses the illness; he prescribes the appropriate medication; you get better. Often this process, and not the actual treatment, cures us with its normality. This is why 55 percent of Chicago doctors have prescribed a placebo treatment to their patients...
...placing computers on standby mode when unused, and increasing vegetarian dining choices can further reduce our footprint and help us achieve President Faust’s goal of reducing Harvard’s greenhouse-gas footprint 30 percent by 2016. That being said, creative ideas such as changing the treatment of our grass are encouraging signs that we will reach, if not surpass, this target...
...United States from India in 1986. Receiving a master’s degree in Management Information Systems, he worked at Hewlett-Packard, Anderson Consulting and Tufts University before accepting his job here at Harvard. When Raj stood up for his rights and complained to administrators about his poor treatment, he faced the consequences of a flawed system: Raj’s boss took away his office, criticized his work, and gave him a mediocre evaluation while Raj waited for assistance that never came...
...Most of these changes cannot be "scored" by accountants as yielding savings, since no one knows exactly how the system will respond to the new rules. Will doctors and hospitals revolt en masse against the changes? Will improved treatment really lead to a significant drop in unneeded procedures? "You need to give things a chance to change," explains Joseph Aslop, a health adviser for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). "If you put [the pressure] on too hard too fast, things are going to break." (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...French view Polanski as an artist and celebrity and feel he deserves a different kind of treatment than ordinary people, which just isn't an option in the U.S.," says Ted Stanger, an author and longtime resident of France who has written extensively on the differing public views and attitudes across the Atlantic. "The French in particular, and Europeans in general, don't understand why it isn't possible for American officials to intervene and say, 'Hey, it's been over 30 years and things look a little different now. Let's just forget this thing.' " (Read "More Sex, Please...